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Decades after Soviet terror, Lithuania confronts its Holocaust
VILNIUS â The Soviets swept through Lithuania in 1940. The Nazis did the same in 1941, only to be pushed back once again by the Soviets in 1944. In the turmoil of shifting frontlines, Lithuaniaâs...
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Preventing disaster in Donbas
VIENNA â Ukraine suffered one of the most horrendous man-made disasters in recent memory â the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986. It is now suffering through a war that is poisoning relations...
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Terror in Catalonia: No time for blame games
I read “Catalan nationalists campaign on backs of the dead” (August 29) with great sadness and concern. The piece contains several outrageous factual inaccuracies at a time when we are still shocked...
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This is how Trump can earn a rare win in the Middle East
When President Donald Trump looks out at the world these days, he must see challenges from all sides: a belligerent North Korea, an underhanded Russia, an ascendant China and a beleaguered but...
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Don’t judge Trump on how he handles Harvey
WASHINGTON â Itâs an article of faith in American politics that big disasters are defining moments for presidentsâcreating a huge stage for political theater and also posing some of the biggest...
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Brussels bubble has a diversity problem
Ethnic and religious minorities make up at least 7 percent of the European Unionâs population. And yet, if you work in the Brussels bubble, youâll know itâs exceedingly rare to meet an EU civil...
View ArticleBell Pottinger scandal, sadly inevitable
LONDON — Many years ago, Tim Bell harangued me at a party over someone else’s champagne for being industrial editor of the Observer, a newspaper that was unduly influenced, in his view, by the...
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Ukrainian veterans’ war within
HRUNIVKA, Ukraine — As gunfire crackled across the sweltering fields, Max Stodola looked on with blank dread: “It happened so fast — there was nothing I could do. I just thought, ‘See ya, guys, nice...
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Why Berlin won’t come to UK’s rescue on Brexit
BERLIN — With the German election around the corner, the United Kingdom appears to be holding out hope that a fourth term for Chancellor Angela Merkel and a potentially more pro-business coalition...
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EU’s biggest problem: Over-powerful national governments
The wind is changing in Europe. After the disaster of Brexit, citizens are more aware than ever of the need for a stronger Europe. A new European momentum is gathering. But for it to get traction, we...
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All quiet on the eastern front
VISAGINAS, Lithuania — In a gentlemen’s club in the Lithuanian town of Visaginas, less than 30 kilometers from the Belarusian border, a group of men are playing pool. Some drink beer, others order...
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A Russian military opportunity
CAMBRIDGE, England — The Zapad military exercise, to be held jointly by Russia and Belarus this week, has spawned alarming predictions of covert Russian aggression against its Baltic neighbors, and...
View ArticleBritain better off outside the single market
This is a political debate. For the alternative view, click here. LONDON — To pursue a “jobs first” Brexit, the U.K. Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn has argued that the best option post Brexit is a...
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In Moscow, Putin’s opponents chalk up a symbolic victory
MOSCOW — Russia’s liberal opposition is on a high after achieving a series of unprecedented victories in the Kremlin’s backyard at local council elections — including in the wealthy Moscow district...
View ArticleBritain better off in the single market
This is a political debate. For the alternative view, click here. LONDON — Theresa May has set Britain on course for a kamikaze Brexit. With time quickly running out, negotiations are going nowhere. We...
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The loneliest president
“ISOLATED?” read the subject line. “Friend,” Donald Trump wrote recently to supporters in a fundraising email. “The fake news keeps saying, ‘President Trump is isolated.’ … They say I’m isolated by...
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An ode to The Cambodia Daily
On April 26, 2012, Kevin Doyle, then editor-in-chief of The Cambodia Daily, received a phone call during his lunch break. It was from Phorn Bopha, a 27-year-old reporter who had ventured into the...
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Battleground Berlin: Will Russian-Germans vote for the far right?
BERLIN — As long as the Russian-speaking enclave on Berlin’s eastern edge voted for the far left, it was largely invisible on the German political map. But then its residents started voting for the far...
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Spain reckons with legacy of Al Andalus in fight against extremism
MADRID — On August 23, less than a week after the double terrorist strike in Catalonia that killed 16 people and injured at least 100, Islamic State issued a new threat against Spain. “Spanish...
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The unknowable chancellor
BERLIN hen Angela Merkel became German chancellor in 2005, George W. Bush and the neocons were running Washington, Tony Blair was serving a third term in the U.K., and Silvio Berlusconi was romping...
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